SOME may get that, but most are... well let me put it this way.
A small time thief is caught as 8am, he will be out of jail for lunch!
It happens all the time with poor people in the court system in the DR.
Look what happened to the guys who robbed and attempted to kill Matilda, they were set free for "lack of evidence", and these guys were dirt poor and Haitian too.
With everything people say about how poor people in the court system get the end of the stick and the way Haitians are treated, you would think they would have gotten the end of the stick, but no, that's not what happened.
Had some expats gotten their hands on those guys who made that attempt on Matilda and I doubt their fate would had been any different from that guy in the OP post.
That's the difference between "street justice" and "court justice".
And yet, the court gave the powerful B?ez Figueroa the maximum sentence allowed by the law he was convicted of breaking, plus fines galore.
Conventional wisdom says that the opposite should had occurred in the "corrupt" DR, B?ez Figueroa gone home with no problems and the poor thieves and murderers gotten the end of the stick.
But, again, that's not what happened!
-NALs
